Neil Simon
Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simonis an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has written more than thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth4 July 1927
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.
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If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
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Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar, ... When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.
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So, doing this one -- I mean -- the only thing I worried about was, are we going to live up to the original one, ... And for that, we need the right actors and I think we got them. So that made me feel pleased about that.
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Danny made me laugh. ... He made everyone laugh. He was a character (in more ways than one) in at least nine or 10 of my plays, and I'm sure will probably be there again in many plays to come.
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I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.
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There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.